How to Keep Your Work in Focus: Celebrate with a Party

I don’t celebrate like I should. Maybe I should put partying on my to do list.

Party cake

“For seven days you must celebrate this festival to honor the Lord your God at the place he chooses, for it is he who blesses you with bountiful harvests and gives you success in all your work. This festival will be a time of great joy for all” (Dt 16:15).

The Israelis are supposed to celebrate the harvest with a feast for seven days. The celebration recognizes God’s part in providing success in their work. God provided the food: vegetables, vines and herds, but they had to plant, groom and tend. The celebration honored God, because without God their work would not have been fruitful.

My work also produces a harvest, a product. I’m no gardener or rancher. My work produces grown children, stacks of clean laundry and a few scribblings I call writing. I may influence spiritual growth through speaking and ministering. But the real produce from my life is what God makes of my feeble attempts to work with what I’ve got.

Any work of mine that is of real worth comes from God working through me. Not me alone. Therefore, I should celebrate. Celebrate the work of God in helping me to complete my tasks, to bring in the harvest.

But in my busy lifestyle, with all the tasks I have, I don’t stop and celebrate finishing one before I turn to the next. I work on too many tasks at once and the completion of one is given a quick wink as I look to the next. I run to the next job and make no space for celebration.

How would my life be different if I stopped after finishing a task long enough to thank God for helping me get things done? How much less stressed would life be if we had an afterglow party for a few days to celebrate God’s work through us?

In what ways do you celebrate and thank God after your harvests? How do you recognize God’s part of your work?


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6 thoughts on “How to Keep Your Work in Focus: Celebrate with a Party”

  2. Yes, Jorlyn. It was my joy to meet you. Let’s do keep in touch.

    Blessings galore!

    Reply
  3. Cynthia A. Lovely says:

    Hi Robin,
    Glad we were able to connect at Blue Ridge.
    If your speaking engagements bring you around
    the New York area, please drop me a line.
    -Cynthia

    Reply

  4. Cynthia,
    How fun it would be to drop in on you while in New York. I’ll keep that in mind as my scheduling goes. And if you come to Texas do me the favor of doing the same.
    Blessings, Robin

    Reply

  5. I love your idea to stop and celebrate upon completion of a task before turning to the next. Celebration with thanksgiving.

    You have a photo of a cake with a candle. I wonder if some little fun ritual could accompany this potential new habit?

    You’ve got me thinking…

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    • What a great idea, Ann. A fun tidbit to do either between ourselves and God as a reminder, or even a big thing for some occasions. I love the idea!
      I wonder what kind of little private-handshake kind of deal would be good.

      Reply